The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-18
Afternoon Session.

The following bills introduced and re-
ferred to appropriate committees:
By Mr.. Roberts, To provide homestead exemp-
ticn Also: To punish the buying of votes.
By Mr.. Pleasant: Relieving township trustee from
loss by failure of bank Also: To regulate weights
Bv Mr.. Leighty: To fix the time when township
trustees shall go into office.
By Mr.. VanSlyke: Joint resolution to amend Seq
2, Art. g. of the Constitution making the term of
county officers four years and rendering all except
surveyor ineligible for reelection. Also: To fix the
time when county officers shall 60 into office
BY Mr.. Buckles: To provide live stock sanitary
commission Also: Relating agricultural societies.
By Mr. Clark: Regulating the election of county
perintendents. Also: To regulate the election of
school directors.
By Mr.. Thompson: Fixing fees of county recorders.
By Mr. Grose: To establish and maintain the In
diana School for Feeble minded Youth. Aso To
make appropriations for the three hospitals for
the insane.
law to make it applicable to all cities of than
16 600 inhabitants. Also: To regulate the liability
of employers for negligence of coemployes-
Mr.. Jewett asked consent to introduce a reso-
luton showing it to be the sense of the General
Assembly that the Smith Robertson case should
be carried to the Supreme Court at once, and
that decision should be obtained by Wednes-
day noon, if possible. The consent was refused.
and Mr.. Jewett moved to suspend the order of
business and consider the resolution.
The motion was lost by vote of 50 yeas to 42
nays. MIR. Reynolds voted with the majority
for the reason, as he stated, that he thought the
Court speedily as possible.
Introduction Of bills was resumed:
By Mr.. Harrell: To authorize County Commission
to offer rewards employ detectives to arrest
horse-thieves Also: To amend Section 21l7 of the
| Revised Statutes of 1881
BY Mr. Howard: To invest married women with
certain interests in land of husband sold at judicial
sale Also: To authorize county clerks to exchange
certain Supreme Court reports for other law books.
| By Mr.. Mackey: Resolution instructing members
in Congress to that but American citizens be
L Oyedi n
( By Mr.. Friend: bill defining the crime of arson
and fixing penalty.
| By Mr.. Acknan To regulate license for sale Of in
By Mr. Conger: In relation to taxation of property
in cities and towns Also: To regulate charges for
| weighing CATTLE ETC.
| mon schools
| BY Mr.. Fleece: To appropriate money to pay claim
of Cornelius 10y against the Reform School for Boys
Also: To require the teaching of physiology and by
By Mr. Loop: Requiring cities and towns to grant
| certain privileges to natural-gas companies.
By Mr.. Dunn: To tax building and loan associa
tons.
the Twelfth judicial circuit. ION motion the rule.
were suspended aNd the bill passed. Aso To amend
Section 546 R. s.. 1881.
Bv Mr. Blinks: A concurrent resolution directing
members in Congress favor such change of ths
United States Constitution that United States Sena
tors will be elected by the people.
rations colectble without relief from valuation law
| and without stay of execution.
By Mr. Grifiths: To provide a State board Of con
troll for benevolent institutions. Also: To make Ms
ron county circuit by itself-as the Nineteenth cir
circuit-and Boone and Hendricks the Twentieth Gil
cult.
By Mr. Morse To legalize the organization Q
trades-uni
By Mr. Sehley: To prevent manufacturers, min
owners ETC.. from combining. together to limit the
? production.
mental Association to erect monument Stat
ground Also: Claim of $1,000 for John w. Mul
ply.
ment to Sections and 8. Article z of the Consttr
ton of the State providing for not less than six nc
! biz to amend Sections Az and 415. R. 81 1881,
: lating to changes of venue.
By Mr. Cox, of Miami: Relating to terms of cou
in the Twenty seventh and Fftieth circuits Also:
regulate the employment of women and children i
4 factories, etc.
{ BY Mr. Conder Legalizine the organization, etc..
the town of Orleans which by suspension of the rule
g was passed.
Z Adjourned.